No, Christians, Morality Isn’t Miraculous
We shouldn’t oversimplify science to make room for God
A popular way of attempting to show that God exists is to contend that only theism can make sense of morality.
The Catholic apologist and YouTuber Brian Holdsworth, for instance, argues that morality is miraculous, given what science says is real. Moreover, he says, morality’s prescriptive laws point to the existence not just of something that transcends the physics of nature, but a mind that wants us to be moral because this mind evidently cares about love and prefers right to wrong.
The argument from morality for God’s existence
Holdsworth begins with this dichotomy:
I want to start by setting the stage between two alternatives, and to emphasize that you can’t have it both ways, which is what too many of us try to get away with. The first option says that the physical universe with its cosmos, planets, living things, matter, and the physical laws that govern those things is all that there is. And so any intellectual inquiry into truth or what is real should be limited to the scope of the physical sciences.
The second option acknowledges the physical universe and everything I just described, but it broadens the scope of…
